The Washington critic., 1887-03-17


ihe Dsinct.
his d,lirocd By carriers at35 cents per
month.
so OCCAsiOS FOR ALARM.
There is little excuse for the wide.
spread alarm as 10 the financial situa.
tios during the long interval before
Congress reconyenes. The condition of |
the Treasury Is much stronger than 1t |
was nine months ago the distribution of
currency much more favorable and adC-
quatc, and the circumstances in many
respects more rrnssuring. The fact |
that various difficulties arising during
the past nine months have been sue.
cessfully met is almost Il sure guarau.
Tee that those Of the nest Mae months
will also be overcome.
The surplus Is smaller, the gold fund
Is stronger. and the circulation and
supply Of convenient forms of small
currency Is more abundant.
The change in the situation deemed
chiefly unfavorable Is the fact that only
thirty millions of bonds remain subject
= 10 call. and that after three monthly
calls this means Of putting money into
circulation will be cut of. 1t is a fact,
however. that recent bond calls have
been of little service, and that the
Treasury has ample authority and has
declared its willingness to go into the
market and buy bonds at current rates
Al ofI p1 p1,
TO call for this action.
All things considered, there is every
reason to believe that the coming sum.
mer and autumn will pass without
financial disturbance, and that the
strength Of the Treasury and the skill of
its managers are fully equal to any
emergencies that may occur.
TO WHOM 1T MAY CONCERN.
For the benefit of great many
people In general and the correspondent
in particular, we publish the following
letter and comments:
LETTER.
EuiroH CRTlC Your structures I'm ycstcr-
days lMouday'sl CRIrIc upon tight.laclng
sense usually found In such articles. For
one can say that from an experience OF
many years a IA wclrer Of very tightlylaGel
corscts have mover suffered the "cNcruci-
atlng personal dlscom(uit" that you speak Of;
neither hive ever dl covered why Il twenty.
three inch wui't should he more admired or
cultivated than one Of eighteen inches. The
"mania," If any, seems To he In mating vii
statements about th's subject Whoever saw
seventeen inch wdl-t In WashlugtoGs
do not believe one can be- found. II ally
with slender waist has 1Tcs, made OF
striped goods which ITS smoothly to hcs fil;
llre making her waist look very small, snmo
envious woman olrcu a'osa report that she is
laced to ,iXtecn or seventeen inches, when.
in fact, the tape measure will show nineteen
or twenty inches As tu the spougc-llGc
organs of respiration Ii no ID only be said
that properly cduCutrl e. liter shnuld know
that tiphtiylaccd cor a. only confines the
waist, and women nowadays don't have their
lungs ~ low down ~ the waist.llne but
cary them above the reach Of the corset, no
matter how tightly 1t may be laced
Mrs. suEISG.rrtS
COMMENTS.
To begin will, We made no structures
ON light lacing in the issue Of The
CRITIC noted. We published, how
ever, some remarks OF Olive Logan
ON the subject, for which we are in no
way responsible, but which we think
much more nearly correct than the re.
marks of our correspondent. We are
not surprised that person who advo.
Gates tight lacing should also mistake a
quoted article for an origina, editorial.
Now TO the subject matter of the letter.
Our correspondent confesses TO tight
lacing for years, and though she has
not discovered Its i'll effects physically,
yet all who read her letter will observe
that its III effects mentally are only too
plain. The body and the head, the
vitals and the brain are so nearly
related, so sympathetic, that abuse of
one Is sure to show It's effect on the
other, as in this case. Nor may the
victim be aware of 1t. Asto symmetry,
We have only to refer to "the female
form divine as set forth in painting
and sculpture and call our correspond.
ent's attention to the self.eyident rules
Of physical proportions.
We don't know whether there are
any "seycnteen.inch waists" in Wash.
ington OF not If there are not, some
little women In town are ont Of proper
ton, that's ALL Nor do we know any
thing about the sponge like organs o
respiration or where the women wea
them; this branch of anatomy an,
physiology not having come within
the province Of the properly edu
Gated editor OF this paper, From tn
way some Of them cough, We shoul,
say they wore them away down in thei
boots, ani then again, from the wa,
some of them lose their breath with
little exercise, we should say they
didn't wear any at all.
Be that as 1t may, the lungs are no
the only organs that suffer from lIgh
lacing, and If our correspondent vii
consult her physician, she may learn
great deal, which we do not feel a
liberty to present in these com
ments. In conclusion we want to sa
that the health Of the women O
America Is something fearful to cor
template, and the prime cause of It /
the tight laclng that most of them II
dulge in.
1t isa well.known fact that anon
women, whose lungs and other Wit.
organs have full development an
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